Fahrenheit 451 foreshadows issues of government restrictions and how it affects a society. A strict government isn't always a good idea to enforce rules and isolation. North Korea is known to overlook citizens every move. From granting medical procedures and housing, to education and tv programs. N. Korea is enforcing these rules because of its totalitarian background and dictator type of government. For example N. Korea uses social commentary to make Americas as well as the United States a hated public figure. Negatively used military and government propaganda is used widely throughout the country to get the point across. In Fahrenheit 451, social commentary is also widely used all throughout the book. It's easily picked out during the uses on censorship, which is part of the book’s meaning/lesson. Censorship of books is so heavily present that there are “firemen” that go into …show more content…
Someones wife dies and many people have mysterious sleeping pills to take when they feel sad or unhappy. Many people have abused these pills and had overdosed and many have even died. I believe the “sleeping pills” were a metaphor for censorship. The citizens used the pills when they were uncomfortable or upset with that was going on around them. Comparing these fictional “sleeping pills” and use of censorship of literature in schools; books like Fahrenheit 451, Of Mice and Men, and As I Lay Dying are all banned in many schools across the United States. “So now do you see why books are hated and feared? They show the pores in the face of life. The comfortable people want only wax moon faces, poreless, hairless, expressionless.” (2,129-130) In this describes the reason and how big of an impact books have in society. The books ruin the citizens’ shallow happiness they are comfortable in. The books would force them out of their perfection and noticed imperfections about themselves and the